6th most-quoted character in Jessica Jones: in 14 of its 192 quotes
Most scenes with: Jessica Jones (10)
Scenes with Alisa Jones 14
Alisa Jones
Where is she now?
I don't know specifically.
Alisa
You're not in contact with her?
Contact would require communication skills on her part.
Alisa
Um... well, she always was a moody little shit. [chuckles] So you have no idea where I could find her?
Well, I hear she's shacking up with some bartender, and apparently, he's bad news.
Alisa
Meaning what? Is he hurting her?
Honey, I'd be more worried about him.
Alisa
I'm glad she can take care of herself.
That's putting it mildly. You know, I gave her everything she could want, and she gave me nothing but disrespect and ingratitude.
Alisa
[after telling Jessica what happened to them since the car accident] I was a botched experiment, but that didn't matter because I stopped living in the real world. I didn't exist. Until now. I'm so sorry. Is there any way you could forgive me?
No. [slaps Alisa to the ground]
Whether the cops catch him or I do, one way or another, he's gonna pay.
Alisa
Trust me, [sighs] living with me for the last 12 years, he's paid plenty.
Alisa
Our lives just weren't the storybook bullshit you seem to think they were. That's all.
Well, there were parts of it that seemed pretty perfect to me. Christmases, Thanksgiving, that weird marshmallow thing you made with yams.
Alisa
[chuckles] Yeah, not even I can ruin what is essentially a vat of marshmallows, butter and sugar. [pause] What?
When I look at you, I don't see my mother, but your voice makes me feel like I'm back with you in our old house, before everything.
TDTaxi Driver
Okay, okay. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
Alisa
Our "panties"? Grown goddamn women don't wear panties. We wear underwear!
Alisa
Just tell me what's going on in that head of yours.
I don't know, okay? There's no manual that tells you what to do when your mother who's been dead for 17 years comes back and is a mass murderer. I'm kinda winging it. Everything inside me tells me I should turn you in.
Alisa
But you're not ready? Well, take your time. I'm in no rush to spend the rest of my life in a steel box.
Alisa
Look, what I'm trying to say is... [sighs] is that if I had been driving, we would all still be alive. So it's my fault, too. That's a great role model for your daughter, right? "Shut up and sit shotgun."
You've set worse examples.
Alisa
Never once did it cross my mind that any of this is your fault.
Funny, 'cause it crossed mine about a million times. [Alisa flushes the "ashes" down the toilet] What are you doing?
Alisa
Closure.
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
Alisa
Feel how you feel. You have nothing to forgive yourself for.
Alisa
I almost put your face through the floor. Where's your sense of self-preservation?
Alisa
No, I just have her voice. Karl is all I've got.
Then you're a goddamn idiot.
Alisa
Um, may I make a phone call before I eat my breakfast?
MMarilyn
You trying to take advantage of the substitute teacher?
Alisa
No, no. It's just, my daughter had a blind date last night. I wanna make sure she got home safe.
MMarilyn
I talk to my girl every damn day, whether she wants to or not.
Alisa
You never stop being a mom, do you?
[Alisa in prison recalls a memory with Karl]
Alisa
You can't send me out there alone.
I'm not sending you anywhere. I'll get us a little place by the water, somewhere safe. It'll just be you and me.
Alisa
[chuckles] I can't let you give up your life's work for me.
This is what I want. Not because I'm your doctor, not because you're the most powerful woman I've ever met–
Alisa
I can jump ten stories, but I can't grow hair. What kind of a lame-ass power is that? [laughs]
I know it's complicated. It's completely unethical.
Alisa
I'm an illegal experiment, and you're worried about ethics? Screw ethics. [kisses Karl]
Alisa
But there could be.
No. You killed that possibility. Along with a cop.
Alisa
I had no choice. They were never gonna let me live.
There is always a choice. Your brain is just too goddamn broken to ever make the right one.
You could have crushed my skull.
Alisa
But I didn't. I held back.
[scoffs] Is that supposed to reassure me?
Alisa
Yes! I controlled it.
Alisa
Or because I carried you inside me, or because we're both powered, or because we've both lost too much. We don't have to lose each other.
Alisa
And you're my cure.
Alisa
And I'm yours.
I am not the one who's sick. I help people, I have a life.
Alisa
You're drunk, 24/7. You're numbing yourself. Is that a life? You can make it better. We can be better, together.
Alisa
She's destroying herself because of you.
Thanks. Like I didn't already feel shitty enough.
Alisa
No. People will always feel "less than" around us. And that will make them either resent us or idealize us. Even Karl. [Jessica scoffs] Some days he put me on a pedestal. Others, he probably wished he never met me. Dimming our light, limping our way through life, that is not an option. Not with the gifts we have.
If you say, "With great power comes great responsibility," I swear I'll throw up on you.
Alisa
Wouldn't be the first time, you were a barfy baby. [chuckles]
What happened to being a team?
Alisa
Best dream I ever had. I have gone as far as I can go.
No, you don't get to quit. Not after what you put me through.
Alisa
I've done a lot of damage in my life, but somehow you're standing on top of the rubble like a shining light.
Stop talking to me like I'm your baby Jesus.
Alisa
"Hero" isn't a bad word, Jessica. It's just someone who gives a shit and does something about it.
Well, I don't, I don't give a shit.
Alisa
Yes, you do. You do. It sucks, and it hurts, but you do. You are far more capable than I ever was. Maybe I don't have to be amazing. Maybe I just made you.
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Jessica Jones · 192 quotes
